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De-hyping the Amgen Tour of California

As the Amgen Tour of California gets ready to start, Team Jelly Belly’s (and future Team Rapha cyclocross team member) Jeremy Powers was profiled recently by Cyclocross Magazine … and the first sentence in the article got my gander up.

Not because of anything J-Pow related, but because of short phrase:

Jeremy Powers (Jelly Belly) [...]

Drool-worthy reading

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Custom Bicycles: A Passionate Pursuit    by Christine Elliott & David Jablonka

Cycling has never lost its appeal. Alongside mass-produced models, the craftsmanship of handmade bespoke bicycle makers has emerged to satisfy the passion of people who ride bikes as a means of daily transport, as a sport and for [...]

Debunking the Efficient Market Hypothesis

From The Origin of Financial Crises: Central Banks, Credit Bubbles, and the Efficient Market Fallacy, by George Cooper:

The idea that markets are efficient requires the following to hold:

Asset price bubbles do not exist; the prices of all assets are always correct. Markets, when left alone, will converge to a steady equilibrium state. That [...]

The return of economic nationalism

The return of economic nationalism | The Economist

MANAGING a crisis as complex as this one has so far called for nuance and pragmatism rather than stridency and principle. Should governments prop up credit markets by offering guarantees or creating bad banks? Probably both. What package of fiscal stimulus would be most effective? It varies [...]

History

I’m not sure what I’m more excited about.

Barack Obama’s landslide victory tonight? Or the dinner I had with an old friend from high school.

The first was history in the making; the latter is history … but both were extremely pleasant.

God & Politics: redux

A repost from March, prompted by various Twitter and other assertions that the United States was founded on “Christian principles” … nothing could be further from the truth.

The only part of became the United States that was founded on “Christian” principles was the original Plymouth colony in Massachusetts, by the Puritans who were escaping [...]

Clinton and RFK

Clinton explains RFK assassination reference

BRANDON, South Dakota (CNN) — Sen. Hillary Clinton said Friday that she regretted comments that evoked the June 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy as part of her explanation for why she was staying in the presidential race late into the primary season.

Earlier Friday afternoon, she told the editorial board [...]

Quote of the Day

FLOWERS & BULLETS

Of course: Bullets don’t like people who love flowers, They’re jealous ladies, bullets, short on kindness. Allison Krause, nineteen years old, you’re dead for loving flowers.

When, thin and open as the pulse of conscience, you put a flower in a rifle’s mouth and said, “Flowers are better than bullets,” that was [...]

Chinese censorship

China doctors the news of Olympic torch relay

The English-language China Daily newspaper described London’s upheaval in the streets as “disruptions by a few Tibetan separatists and their supporters.” In the first reports from Paris by the state-run Xinhua news agency, the journalist cited “technical difficulties” as the reason the torch was extinguished and carried [...]

God & Politics

My mother sent me more mom-spam yesterday, this one being a purported re-write of the Preamble of the Constitution, accompanied by a series of articles. Some of the articles are basic pleas to common sense. But one in particular really got my goat.

ARTICLE XI: You do not have the right to change our country’s [...]